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...gut reaction is that if somebody took the effort of preparing a well-crafted petition, backed it up with some facts, and sent it out in the same way that the earlier [Israel-focused] divestment petition was sent out, a comparable number of people—maybe more—would sign this,” said George Moseley, a lecturer at the School of Public Health. “But that’s just my guess...
...have no data to support this, no focus groups or instant polls, just a gut sense: George W. Bush hurt himself when he slagged John Kerry as a Massachusetts liberal in the third presidential debate last week. "You know, there's a mainstream in American politics, and you sit right on the far left bank," he scolded. "As a matter of fact, your record is such that Ted Kennedy, your colleague, is the conservative Senator from Massachusetts." The President chuckled--heh, heh--indicating that he thought this was clever...
That he did. The resulting effort, My Dark Places, is a heartfelt, gut-wrenching 427 pages of coming to terms. “I understood that I would learn things about my mother, and I learned great things about my mother…and myself,” Ellroy said...
...year ago, I was visiting my parents in Ramallah. As I was walking home with two of my brothers, a 14 year old and an 8 year old, I heard loud gunshots close by. My first gut reaction was to kneel down and hide my head. I looked up a second later and found that my brothers kept walking as if nothing had happened. They didn’t even notice that I was still behind. That was a moment I shall never forget. It went beyond the fact that they were used to the sound of bombs and bullets...
...were longer. The circumscribed length of Kuper's version of "The Jungle" dispenses with much of the minor character development - so much so that it gets a bit confusing. It also lacks the details of atrocity that made each of Sinclair's chapters seem like a punch in the gut. On the other hand, Kuper wisely does away with the anti-climactic Socialist agitprop that made up the last few chapters of the original book. Instead he ends on the hope of a new beginning. While certainly no substitute for the original, Kuper's adaptation makes for a fine compliment...